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The American Bar Association adopted new ethical guidelines for lawyers regarding online marketing and staying aware of current technology at its annual meeting this month.

Chances are if you’re not already participating in the social media conversation, you’re thinking about it. And if you’re not thinking about it, you should be.

It’s a chore few people want to do, it seems: delete old data securely. Even though it’s beneficial to a data storage strategy (less data to store means less money needed to store it), and significantly lowers costs if e-discovery becomes an issue, few companies have a consistent deletion plan in place.

“You tell me what you know and I’ll confirm. I’ll keep you in the right direction if I can. … Just … follow the money.” — Deep Throat, “All the President’s Men” In the depth of the Watergate scandal, the ...

When an attorney and a client enter into a lawyer-client relationship, one of the more frequent areas of conflict is who makes the decisions with regard to the handling of the matter.

“What was most surprising to me was just the sheer magnitude of these effects,” author says

A U.S. Supreme Court justice stands in his august chambers concentrating on his latest project while a law clerk looks on in admiration. Is the subject a petition for certiorari that seeks to upend decades of constitutional precedent? Hardly. All attention is on a golf ball that Byron White is poised to putt across his carpet in an attempt to best his clerks in a contest of athletic prowess.

A Texas jury has awarded more than $22 million to a woman injured when her car was broadsided by a station wagon driven by a Coca-Cola marketing employee talking on her cell phone.

Over the last decade, advances in the field of molecular biology have enabled researchers to better understand how a patient’s unique metabolic, genetic and proteomic profile might be used to develop more targeted and effective diagnostic tests.

Blogging, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+ et al. have changed the way people communicate and consume information in both their professional and personal lives. It’s official. And it’s not too late for you to join the e-parade.

As some lawmakers continue to push to allow cameras to broadcast Supreme Court arguments, the Court’s newest justice has chimed in on the issue.